64-pdr Converted RML

Bore: 6.3-inch (RML)

Range: 3,300 yards

In service: 1885-1897 (some remained on site till 1911)

Number in Service: 8

The 64-pounder converted gun was a rifled muzzle-loading gun converted from obsolete smoothbore 8-inch shell guns. Four were placed on Mount Victoria in Auckland and two were emplaced at the Low Battery on Point Gordon in Wellington. These guns were pretty obsolete when emplaced and saw very little service. Today, three are apparently at the National Army Museum at Waiouru and a fourth is at HMNZS Philomel in Auckland.

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Description: One of the 64-pounders on the summit in the 1880s

Reference: Overlooking Devonport, with cannon in foreground. Ref: 1/2-018635-G. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand. /records/22497145

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Description: A drawing showing battery of 64 pounders rifled muzzle loaders on Mount Victoria, Devonport, arranged in the open as a result of the Russian scare of 1885-6. The last two were moved to Windsor Reserve in May 1911

Reference: Sir George Grey Special Collections, Auckland Libraries, 4-2950 (http://www.aucklandcity.govt.nz/dbtw-wpd/exec/dbtwpub.dll?BU=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.aucklandcity.govt.nz%2Fdbtw-wpd%2FHeritageImages%2Findex.htm&AC=QBE_QUERY&TN=heritageimages&QF0=ID&NP=2&MR=5&RF=HIORecordSearch&QI0=%3D%224-2950%22).

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Description: Showing battery of 64 pounders rifled muzzle loaders on Mount Victoria, Devonport, arranged in the open as a result of the Russian scare of 1885-6. The last two were moved to Windsor Reserve in May 1911

Reference: Auckland Libraries Heritage Collections 4-2949 (http://www.aucklandcity.govt.nz/dbtw-wpd/exec/dbtwpub.dll?BU=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.aucklandcity.govt.nz%2Fdbtw-wpd%2FHeritageImages%2Findex.htm&AC=QBE_QUERY&TN=heritageimages&QF0=ID&NP=2&MR=5&RF=HIORecordSearch&QI0=%3D%224-2949%22).